"Rap is beaten" by law's change. - Prison officials say old code would have extended convicts' terms. - Fifteen state penitentiary inmates, ordered released by Federal Judge J. Stanley Webster yesterday on his ruling that the present state law on...

Texans Rap at La Follette: Legislatures Congratulates Wisconsin Body on Resolution. Austin, Texas, March 11. --- The Lower house of the state legislature today adopted a resolution congratulating the Wisconsin house of representatives on taking...

Reliefers rap pay cutWPA officials had a warning today from several hundred workmen that they would return tomorrow for a report on a protest against a slash in the pay of timbermen and pipe layers on the Hillyard sewer project. The workmen...

New rap taken by Poindexter. - Washington Senator says plan is "utterly intolerable." - Senator Poindexter of Washington, republican, addressing the business men's club here tonight, declared that the proposed league of nations plan was "utterly...

Compensation manager takes rap at Herman J. Rossi. - An increase of 10 per cent in tates on workmen's compensation insurance written by the State Insurance Fund, was announced today by P. C. O'Malley, manage, in a statement which included a denial...

Carpenters rap Coulee system. - The Washington State Council of Carpenters aimed criticism today at the practice assertedly carried on at Coulee Dam of dividing carpenters into three classifications and paying as low as 65 cents an hour.

Trustees of the Taxpayers' Economy league meeting yesterday voted to advise the league membership and the public to vote against the district power bill, the legislative reapportionment bill and the tax classification amendment and to vote for the...

The parting salvos of the republican political campaign in Asotin county were fired last night at Smith hall at a rally in which President Roosevelt's administration and alleged "communistic influences" in Seattle and on the west coast were...

Empire-press criticizes senator's stand on dam road. A bill that would make the Disautel road via Omak the main highway to Grand Coulee dam from the west was introduced this week by Senator Koontz of Douglas and Okanogan counties. If the bill...

An attack on the United States Supreme Court, through a platform resolution at the Democratic state convention in Aberdeen next Saturday, was foreseen today as "left-wing" Democrats, flushed with their success at the King County convention last...

The Spokane Realty board today went on record as vigorously opposed to the Showalter education bill, branding it as a measure "that will greatly increase school expenditures and add to already overly high taxation."

Nowhere is the fine character of a good sportsman emphasized better than in politics. To make a good fight and accept victory with a smile is easy. To wage a good fight, win it, and then shake hands with an opponent when the fight is ended, is the...

Washington's political campaign entered the home stretch today with the entrance of the state's two democratic senators, Lewis B. Schwellenbach and Homer T. Bone, into the political picture in support of President Roosevelt.

Allied committee of sixteen OK's graduated income tax amendment. Opposition to the production-for-use initiative, the Stevenson old aged pension bill and the state civil service act, and to the plan of the Washington Commonwealth Federation to...